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100 Yuan Romance of 3 Kingdoms - Zhang Fei on horseback
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Second Rénmínbì (1955-date) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | Dynamic equestrian depiction of Zhang Fei, one of the principal warriors of the Three Kingdoms period, mounted on horseback and shown in full stride amid a landscape setting with mountains and water in the background. The general is portrayed in period military attire, his right arm extended and pointing forward in a commanding gesture, conveying martial vigor and authority. The denomination 100元 appears in the upper left field, and the Chinese characters 张飞 (Zhang Fei) are inscribed vertically to the right of the central design. The scene is rendered in a painterly, classical Chinese artistic style with fine engraved detail. |
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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms gold series, issued across the mid-1990s by the People's Bank of China, drew from Luo Guanzhong's 14th-century historical novel rather than from the events of the actual Han dynasty collapse — a deliberate choice that positioned the coins as cultural artifacts tied to literary tradition rather than strict historiography. Zhang Fei, the sworn brother of Liu Bei, is among the novel's most viscerally drawn figures: a butcher by trade before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and notoriously killed by his own subordinates in 221 AD while preparing for the campaign to avenge Guan Yu's death.